[erlang-questions] [Q]: Literals in functions

Kostis Sagonas kostis@REDACTED
Mon Jun 18 18:03:24 CEST 2007


Ladislav Lenart wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a generated function with no arguments which returns
> a rather complex but constant term.
> 
> Is the compiler "smart enough" to build this structure once
> at compile time and then return it on each invocation or is
> this structure constructed anew upon each invocation?

The native code compiler is (and has been for quite some time now).

The BEAM compiler is slowly getting there...

Kostis



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